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南宁二中2025—2026学年度下学期高一期中考试 英语 （考试时间：120分钟 满分：150分） 注意事项： 1．答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。 2．回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在试卷上无效。 3．考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分） 第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分） 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话播放两遍。 例：How much is the shirt? A. £ 19.15. B. £ 9.18. C. £ 9.15. 答案是C。 1. What is the man’s advice for the woman? A. Eat at the cafeteria. B. Buy less expensive food. C. Spare more time to study. 2. What does the man ask the woman to do? A. Hold the chair. B. Give him the tools. C. Close the cupboard. 3. How long will the man stay in Vancouver? A. Two days. B. Three days. C. Five days. 4. What has been stolen? A. A purse. B. Glasses. C. A computer. 5. Why is the woman talking to the man? A. To buy a container. B. To follow up on a shipment. C. To ask about the shipping rates. 第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分） 听下面5段录音。每段录音后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段录音前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，每小题都有5秒钟的作答时间。每段录音播放两遍。 听第6段录音，回答第6、7题。 6. What do we know about James? A. He is busy studying. B. He has graduated from college. C. He works as a computer programmer. 7. What does the woman offer to do for James? A. Help him find a job. B. Teach him programming. C. Show him around her company. 听第7段录音，回答第8至10题。 8. Whom did Bill go to the museum with before? A. His family. B. His classmates. C. His friends. 9. What does Bill think of the school trip? A. Tiring. B. Interesting. C. Boring. 10. What happened to Bill? A. He had a foot injury. B. He failed to go on a trip. C. He was absent from school. 听第8段录音，回答第11至13题。 11. What are the speakers mainly discussing? A. Which restaurant to choose. B. When to hold the meetings. C. How to entertain their client. 12. What can we learn about Mr. Yamada? A. This is his first US visit. B. He will stay for two days. C. He is interested in baseball. 13. What is Darren’s suggestion concerning Mr. Yamada? A. Taking him to a baseball game. B. Going sightseeing with him. C. Giving him seafood as a gift. 听第9段录音，回答第14至17题。 14. Which meal will Cathy have at the center? A. Breakfast. B. Lunch. C. Dinner. 15. Who is Jenny Ball? A. Cathy’s sister. B. Cathy’s teacher. C. Cathy’s aunt. 16. How will Mrs. Smith pay? A. She’ll pay monthly. B. She’ll pay the full amount now. C. She’ll pay in full at the end of the term. 17. What will Mrs. Smith probably do next? A. Contact Jenny. B. Fill out a form. C. Visit the center. 听第10段录音，回答第18至20题。 18. What was Hidden Valley Stone Castle originally built as? A. A prison. B. A summer house. C. A filming location. 19. What attracts filmmakers to film at the castle? A. Free public access. B. Modern facilities inside. C. Its history and natural setting. 20. Why are some parts of the castle closed to visitors? A. They are being repaired. B. They are being used for filming. C. They are not open during the off season. 第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分 50 分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分） 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A Here is something you can do to experience another culture which may be different from yours. La Tomatina, Spain Once a year, in the Valencia town of Buñol, the Spanish gather to throw tomatoes at each other. The world’s largest tomato fight, La Tomatina, now attracts many participants from around the world. Battaglia delle Arance, Italy If you don’t fancy throwing tomatoes, how about oranges? During the Carnevale di Ivrea each year, residents of Ivrea, Italy come together to throw oranges at each other. The tradition is in memory of a conflict between the locals and a bad ruler, with oranges thrown as part of the fight for freedom. La Mordida, Mexico If you like to take small bites of your birthday cake, it might be best not to spend your birthday in Mexico. After singing Happy Birthday, guests watch while the birthday boy or girl blows out his/her candles. He/She then leans over and takes a bite of the cake, at which point someone will push his/her face into it. Baking Money into Food, Bolivia Speaking of food, did you know that, in Bolivia, it is traditional to bake money into sweet cakes on New Year’s Eve? It’s a tradition in which bakeries across the country take part. Those who find a coin in their cakes can look forward to plenty of good luck in the new year. 21. What is Battaglia delle Arance in honour of? A. A fight with foreign enemies. B. A battle for freedom. C. The harvest of oranges in Ivrea. D. The hard-working residents. 22. Which of the following best describes the moment of “La Mordida”? A. The second the candles are blown out. B. The time when guests sing the birthday song. C. The point at which the cake is cut into pieces. D. The instant the birthday person is pressed into the cake. 23. What do the four traditions have in common? A. They are linked to food. B. They focus on human rights. C. They are traditions in Europe. D. They are traditions about dance. B In a quiet corner of Montreal, Canada, 72-year-old Elaine McBride has spent the past decade breathing new life into abandoned books. Her small basement workshop, lined with shelves of torn classics and water-stained novels, is a haven for literature that others regarded beyond repair. “Every book has a story worth preserving,” she says, her fingers brushing the worn cover of a 1940s edition of Pride and Prejudice. McBride’s mission began accidentally. After retiring from her job as a librarian, she came across a pile of damaged books destined (注定的) for landfill. Horrified by the waste, she taught herself bookbinding (装订) and restoration techniques through online tutorials and old craft manuals. “I started with glue and patience,” she laughs. Now, her tools include specialized paperweights, acid-free glue, and an old printing machine passed down from her grandfather. Over the years, McBride has restored over 2,000 books, donating most to community centers, schools, and prisons. One of her most memorable projects was reviving a fire-damaged copy of The Little Prince for a local children’s hospital. “The child who received it traced the charred (烧焦的) pages and said, ‘Now it’s like me — burned but still loved,’” she recalls. Her work has also inspired a group of teenagers from a nearby high school to join her, learning the art of restoration while listening to her stories of literary history. McBride’s efforts highlight a quiet revolution in a digital age: the belief that physical books hold irreplaceable value. “In a world of screens, these pages are tangible memories,” she says. Though her hands now ache after long hours, she shows no sign of slowing down. “Each book I save is a promise that stories outlive their shelves.” 24. What inspired Elaine McBride to start restoring books? A. A desire to teach others craft skills. B. Her grandpa’s old bookbinding tools. C. The sight of books being thrown away. D. A childhood love for classic literature. 25. Why does the author mention the fire damaged The Little Prince? A. To illustrate McBride’s technical skills. B. To stress the emotional impact of her work. C. To show the popularity of children’s books. D. To compare different restoration challenges. 26. What can be inferred from the words of McBride in paragraph 4? A. Damaged books can hardly carry any stories. B. Stories need new bookshelves to stay popular. C. McBride promises to keep worn books restored. D. Physical books can go beyond the physical form. 27. Which words best describe Elaine McBride? A. Brave and responsible. B. Creative and cooperative. C. Patient and generous. D. Ambitious and decisive. C Rejection (拒绝) hurts. Whether in a professional, social or romantic setting, there’s a particularly sharp pain to the discovery that one has been judged undesirable in some way. If you’ve ever experienced real rejection — and that’d be most of us — it may stand out in your mind long. The late scientist Helen Fisher, who studied human behavior, showed that rejection and physical injury have much in common. She said MRI scans of participants’ brains revealed areas linked to suffering and physical pain were more active. Time did reduce the pain response for Fisher’s participants, but for some people rejection can last for months or years. Social psychologist Naomi Eisenberger did similar experiments too. Why does rejection hit so hard? The thought of being socially excluded brings a sudden cold feeling. It is similar to being kicked out of an old campsite and left helpless against wild animals. To be cast out from the warmth of the shared fire could have meant death for our ancient ancestors — so it was something to be avoided at all costs. While the rejected of modern Britain won’t usually have to contend with the dangers that socially isolated people of 30,000 years ago faced, the urge to seek shelter in the company of others is strong and lasting. For 21st-century people, though, shying away from rejection may do more harm than good. In fact, strong negative emotional reactions to rejection often cause more damage than the rejection itself. To live satisfying lives and know what we enjoy and are good at, we must be prepared to try things — and to fail at them. If you focus on avoiding rejection, you’ll become more unwilling to take risks, with a much narrower social world. What if, rather than hiding from rejection, we attempted to accept it? What if instead of being knocked back by the wave, we tried to ride it? Not only is it possible to overcome the fear of rejection, but doing so can bring about unexpected positive results. 28. How does the author introduce the issue in the second paragraph? A. By giving a definition. B. By presenting related studies. C. By doing experiments. D. By making a comparison. 29. What does the underlined phrase “contend with” mean in paragraph 3? A. Avoid. B. Report. C. Handle. D. Question. 30. What effect does the fear of rejection have? A. Limiting our social circle eventually. B. Running away from our comfort zone. C. Spreading negative emotions to others. D. Remembering the damage already done. 31. What will the author continue to discuss? A. The benefits of accepting rejection. B. The ways of overcoming fear. C. The results of scanning human brains. D. The chances of facing rejection. D Batteries are getting smaller, lighter and more powerful all the time. A group at the University of Cambridge has used the eel’s (鳗鱼的) way to come up with what it calls “jelly batteries”. These are made from hydrogels (水凝胶) containing over 60% water. This makes them both soft and flexible. While most batteries experience a loss of electricity if they are bent or stretched, a jelly battery can be stretched up to one-and-a-half times its length with no electricity loss. This means it can be worn more comfortably against the skin and prove stronger when implanted into internal organs, like the lung, heart or brain. The jelly battery works in much the same way that biological processes, such as the nervous system, produce electricity. They rely on the different concentrations of electrically charged particles (粒子) that exist within different body cells. This creates a difference in electrical potential, which in turn produces a tiny amount of electricity. Electric eels strengthen it by having thousands of muscle cells acting together to produce power strong enough to hunt. Much as an electric eel can increase small electrical with the help of muscle cells, jelly batteries can increase their output by being tied together. They can also be charged and discharged by connecting a power source. The group thinks jelly batteries could be marketed without great difficulty, and that the cost of making them would be reasonable when compared with present battery technologies. The next step for the Cambridge team is to test the biological safety of their jelly batteries when implanted in human body: although, as they are mainly water-based, the team does not expect any rejection problems. Besides wearable and implantable devices, another potential market for stretchable batteries is soft robotics where stretchy parts would be safer to operate among people than traditional robots. They could help power other devices, such as gloves that allow disabled people to move their hands. 32. What makes a jelly battery soft and flexible? A. Its size. B. Its length. C. Its material. D. Its shape. 33. How can jelly batteries raise their electricity output? A. By relying on energy sources to get charged. B. By creating a difference in electrical potential. C. By gathering plenty of cells to work as a team. D. By joining themselves together to increase power. 34. What can we learn about jelly batteries from the last paragraph? A. Their business use is around the corner. B. Their biological application is promising. C. Their production cost is greatly reduced. D. Their potential in robotics is beyond limit. 35. What is a suitable title for the text? A. Jelly batteries: A Nature’s Solution B. Soft batteries: Huge Market Demand C. Soft batteries: Safe for Human Body D. Jelly batteries: A Stretchable Power Source 第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分） 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 When was the last time you updated your resume (简历)? If it’s been a while, you might want to give it a refresh. 36 Here’s some advice on how to write a resume that’s both competitive and up-to-date. A standard resume typically begins with some key information at the top, such as your name and contact number. You don’t need to include your home address. Doing so might suggest you aren’t open to remote work opportunities. 37 Never underestimate how a shared academic interest can instantly build connection with the readers. Adding a paragraph of three-to-five sentences summarizing your professional identity and career is crucial. 38 Use descriptive language to define your role, emphasize unique skills, and state career goals — ultimately showing how you plan to contribute to your field. 39 This acts as an enhanced digital version of your resume, offering additional features. Hiring managers often search for candidates online before interviews. Providing this link makes it easier for them to access relevant details about your qualifications. Resume gaps aren’t unusual, but they should be dealt with thoughtfully. A few ways can help address these gaps, such as listing work history by year instead of month to cover shorter unemployment periods. If needed, unpaid community work and volunteer service during the gap should be included. For longer gaps, briefly explain them in your cover letter. 40 A. Don’t forget, by the way, to add your major. B. Keep in mind that the standard is always changing C. For a fuller professional picture, include a link to your profile. D. This could spark employers’ interest in your academic performance. E. If asked during an interview, discuss them honestly rather than avoid. F. The best way to deal with the gaps is by removing them from your resume. G. This section should clarify your expertise, strengths, and key achievements. 第三部分 语言知识运用（共两节，满分30分） 第一节完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 In order to save the environment, everybody has a role to play. The perfect 41 of someone who knows this well enough is 70-year-old grandmother, Pat Smith. 42 with bags, rubber gloves and a rubbish picker, she spent an entire year 43 rubbish and caring for 52 British beaches after she made it her New Year’s resolution (决心) to 44 one beach each week. She 45 spent her Christmas day picking up plastic bottles on Trevone Beach. During her year-long cleanup, Smith was often 46 by other volunteers, including her grandchildren, who were determined to help her tidy up beach rubbish. However, some people often 47 Smith for a community worker, and to this, she said, “People don’t understand I’ve been doing this 48 . We should all take responsibility for picking up the rubbish as well as 49 we don’t drop rubbish in the first place.” The environmentally conscious granny has no intention of 50 just because this year was over. “Doing 52 beach cleans was my New Year’s resolution and it’s finally 51 ,” said Smith. “I won’t stop, as our beaches 52 me. I’m driven to try and protect our 53 for my children and grandchildren and I will 54 doing everything in my power to achieve that. I hope my efforts will help people be more 55 of their plastic consumption and recycling habits.” 41. A. case B. position C. example D. role 42. A. Associated B. Rewarded C. Combined D. Armed 43. A. recycling B. collecting C. abandoning D. trapping 44. A. explore B. decorate C. clean D. survey 45. A. thus B. still C. again D. even 46. A. admired B. joined C. recorded D. greeted 47. A. blamed B. forgave C. respected D. mistook 48. A. voluntarily B. secretly C. frequently D. cautiously 49. A. protesting B. admitting C. ensuring D. announcing 50. A. escaping B. disappearing C. leaving D. stopping 51. A. done B. strengthened C. canceled D. required 52. A. impress B. understand C. need D. trust 53. A. planet B. courtyard C. continent D. family 54. A. put off B. carry on C. get used to D. begin with 55. A. proud B. aware C. critical D. guilty 第二节（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分） 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当单词或括号内单词的正确形式。 The Sanfu days, also known as the “Chinese dog days of summer”, mark summer’s hottest period of the year. During these days, many Chinese are keen on 56 unique treatment called Sanfutie, 57 is a medicinal patch (贴片) made of traditional Chinese herbal medicine. Practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) believe that 58 (receive) Sanfutie during the hottest summer days is 59 (effect) for coughs, asthma (哮喘) and arthritis. In a word, it is a patchwork solution for winter 60 (disease) in summer. The treatment, 61 (base) on the TCM principle of yin and yang, believes the balance of both elements in the body is 62 great importance for good health. Sanfutie contains a paste of herbs that are “hot” in nature. 63 is believed that applying it to acupuncture (针灸) points helps store yang energy in the human body. These patches 64 (use) in TCM since earliest recorded times, according to Huangdi Neijing, the time-tested textbook for TCM practitioners. Sanfu patch treatment became 65 (extreme) popular in the Qing Dynasty and has enjoyed a revival in recent years as more patients turn to TCM treatment. 第四部分 写作（共两节，满分40分） 第一节书面表达（满分15分） 假定你是学生李华，你将在英语课上做一分钟的演讲，分享自己在上周末参与的一次农场采摘活动，请你以此内容写一篇发言稿，内容包括： 1．采摘过程； 2．个人感受。 注意： 1．词数80左右，开头已给出，不计入词数； 2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。 Good morning, everyone! ___________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 第二节（满分25分） 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。 Eddie lived in a friendly town filled with music. Sharing the same passion for music, Eddie formed a band, The Stars, with his childhood friends Luis and Ruben. One day, they received a letter inviting them to a local music festival a month away. Excited, they decided to practise separately every day and then together once a week. But deep down, Eddie worried about their show because of Ruben, the guitarist. Although Ruben was a quick learner, he didn’t like to practise on his own at home. As a result, he often made a lot of mistakes due to lack of practice. This was a big problem for the band. One week later, as scheduled, they gathered at the drummer Luis’s house for group practice. But they had only played a few lines when Ruben started making mistakes. “Sorry. I... I just...” Ruben tried to make an excuse. “You just haven’t been practising again. You are always like this! We need to practise more; we are running out of time,” Luis’s face turned red with anger. Ruben also shouted back. Both boys stood locking eyes, full of tension. Eddie broke up the argument and calmed them down. He turned to Ruben, asking why he didn’t play at home. “I don’t like to play music on my own,” Ruben confessed (坦白). “My guitar sounds lonely by itself. You know I have trouble focusing on things.” That night, Eddie’s father asked how band practice was going. Letting out a frustrated sigh, Eddie told him what had happened, saying they were considering replacing Ruben. His dad listened quietly, and then offered a simple suggestion, “Instead of practising the same song alone, why not figure out what helps Ruben focus?” Not wanting to lose Ruben as a band member or as a friend, Eddie began to think about it. 注意：1．续写词数应为150左右； 2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 Suddenly an idea struck Eddie. The day of the music festival finally arrived. 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $